Russia can't confirm that ISIS leader Baghdadi was killed in an air strike in Syria

A
man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic
State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would have been his first
public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second
city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the
Internet on July 5, 2014.Social Media
Website via Reuters TV

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it could not confirm
that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in
an air strike in Syria last month, the Interfax news
agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying.

Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed the secretive
Islamic State leader, but Washington said it could not
corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials were
skeptical.